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  • 24-02-2010 6:38pm
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    Wats_in_a_name
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭


    I am 17 and am saving up for a car at the moment. Hope to have it for the summer. Looking for a car around €1500 and looking for recommendations. To be honest I am an idiot when it comes to cars so any advice would be extremely appreciated!

    Thanks!


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    Overature
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Overature


    you dont want to spend 1500 on your first car, youll be spending enough on insurance any way

    get something cheap and small

    ford fiesta, VW polo or peugot. i would get something japanese, there are reliable and go forever.


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    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Fiesta 1.25 - getting ridiculously cheap for a car as capable


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    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    EPM wrote: »
    Fiesta 1.25 - getting ridiculously cheap for a car as capable

    x 2 was my first car and was a great wee runner, nippy enough too


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    cgarrad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭cgarrad


    Get a 1.3 colt, they are like go karts, great fun.


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    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,699 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    1.3 Civics also go like go-karts, but I'll get banhammered if I talk about them :mad:


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    Flesh Gorden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Flesh Gorden


    you can pick up a lot of mid 90's with long nct for under €500

    1.25 Fiesta Zetec-S for 3-500
    1.3 Starlets for around €500 (around 1k for a 98'/99')

    Corsa's go for around the €500 mark as well,
    but having had a loan of one I wouldn't recommend

    Polo's even poor spec ones seem to be advertised at close to €1k
    and if you don't mind crap plastic interiors a clio or 106/saxo


    either way go for a 3dr! look nicer if you decide to add alloys, window tints,
    or factory spec side skirts and spoilers


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    TheColl
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭TheColl


    colt or civic are fairly safe bets as first cars, and usually plenty to be found for sale, and you should get a few years out of one to build up your no claims, then go for somethin else!

    i had a 1.4 astra as my first car, nothing exciting about it whatsoever but it never let me down and wasnt expensive to run.


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    Wats_in_a_name
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭Wats_in_a_name


    Thanks for the tips.

    I am looking for a 5 door and not really interested in adding alloys or spoilers and the like. Just a car to go from a to b. Was hoping to keep it for quite a while and was looking around the 00-03 mark.

    Found a 00 Peugeot 206 1.4L LX 5dr for €1,400 with insurance @ €900 for the year. Got a feeling the insurance is a misquote so hoping it won't go up before I get the car!


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